NEWS + EVENTS

Award highlights NGOs’ commitment and advocacy for road safety San Salvador, El Salvador Three NGO members of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (the Alliance) have been awarded the FedEx Road Safety Award for their outstanding commitment to road safety and the NGO community, growth, and advocacy for… READ MORE

Rationale Each year, the world suffers 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50 million injuries from road crashes. Without serious action, road crashes will cause an estimated 13–17 million more deaths and 500 million more injuries in the current decade.  UN Member States have adopted a resolution 74/299 Improving… READ MORE

Today, the Alliance launches its Accountability Toolkit. The toolkit is a set of practical, web-based tools. It offers tangible steps to equip NGOs to hold their governments accountable for the safety of all road users by reducing road deaths and injuries by 50% by 2030, in alignment with the Global Plan for the… READ MORE

Read in SPANISH. 6 March 2023 The Eighth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims (Global Meeting) started today in San Salvador, El Salvador. The Global Meeting, whose theme is Rethinking road safety: Mobility for people and planet, brings together 214 participants from 61 countries.  1.3… READ MORE

6 March 2023 El encuentro Eight Global Meeting of NGOs Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims (Reunión Global) inicia hoy en San Salvador, El Salvador. La Reunión Global, cuyo tema es Repensar la seguridad vial: Movilidad para las personas y el planeta, reúne a 214 participantes de 61 países…. READ MORE

The symposium on Wednesday 8 March 2023 will be the focal event for the Global Meeting. Its purpose is to enable NGOs to be inspired by a breadth of speakers from inside and outside the traditional road safety sphere. It will feature three panels. Panel one: Evidence based solutions in practice:… READ MORE

Full member The Road Ethics Project is a nonprofit company which addresses the ethical crisis of high levels of road deaths and injuries in South Africa and the SADC region, by sparking conversations and changing minds and behavior to save lives. The Road Ethics Project has three main aims, which… READ MORE

In February 2023, in Tunisia, decree 151/2000 has been approved for 30 km/h zones around schools across the country. The decree was approved during a meeting of the Council of Ministers, presided over by Prime Minister Naglaa Boudin Ramadan. The new decree is an advocacy success for Alliance member Les… READ MORE

In Mashad City, Iran, Alliance member Road Safety Pioneers, has been advocating with the local authorities to adopt safer infrastructure to mitigate against road crash deaths and injuries. Since 2020, safety improvements have been done at 80 intersections, and more interventions target construction of cyclist lanes. The project demonstrates how effective these measures can be. It led to… READ MORE

In Mashhad City, Iran, Alliance member Road Safety Pioneers has been advocating with the local authorities to adopt safer infrastructure to mitigate against road crash deaths and injuries. Since 2020, safety improvements have been implemented at 80 intersections, and more interventions target construction of cyclist lanes. Ali Zayerzadeh of Road Safety Pioneers, the NGO that is… READ MORE

Apart from networking face to face as well as interacting online on Brella, participants of the Eighth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims will benefit from educative workshops throughout the week starting 6-10 March 2023. There will be meetings for the Africa and Latina… READ MORE

Momentum for 30km/h speed limits near school zones is gaining in Georgia following advocacy campaign for the implementation of the rule in municipalities by an Alliance member NGO. So far, 96 school zones in Zugdidi, Tbilisi, and Rustavi municipalities have installed new road signs for the reduced speed limit. Zugdidi… READ MORE

“Advocacy, commitments, funding, and implementation of interventions which do not reduce deaths and injuries are wasting time and resources,” says the Alliance’s Director of Research and Accountability Chika Sakashita. In her perspective, governments and NGOs, along with private sector and academia, have accountability for fulfilling the respective roles set out for them… READ MORE

The Alliance is delighted to welcome the four new members that joined us recently. Full members Road Safety Education Limited (RSE) is a not-for-profit delivering road safety education to Australian and New Zealand high schools, primarily through their flagship, RYDA program. To date over 725,000 young people have participated in… READ MORE

Read about some of the Alliance’s key moments in 2022. These moments back up members’ advocacy in their countries and enable the Alliance to represent the NGO perspective in the global road safety arena: MARCH: NGOs launched global and regional Calls to Action at the Seventh Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety… READ MORE

“I have been impressed by the growing success of work being done by NGOs, usually working in partnership,” said HRH Prince Michael of Kent, announcing the 2022 Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards. “I am especially pleased that many of my award winners this year reflect this significant development.” We… READ MORE

In the run up to World Day of Remembrance 2022, a new memorial to crash victims was inaugurated in Parque de Madrid Rios by the city authorities in collaboration with Alliance member NGO Stop Accidentes. The memorial, a bronze sculpture by sculptor Rosa Serra, consisting of two figures leaning against… READ MORE

Zambia passed a new national law in 2019 that reduced speed limits on urban roads to 30km/h. Since then, Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST) has been collaborating with the government to implement the law in school zones, working school by school. ZRST’s efforts have been assisted by the LEARN project,… READ MORE

The Alliance is delighted to welcome six new members that joined the Alliance recently. Full members Bicicultura, Chile, is a non-profit organization (OSFL), founded in 2006, based in the commune of Ñuñoa, Chile, working in sustainable mobility, which has been working for 13 years in Chile. It has vast experience… READ MORE

On 18 November 2022, WHO held an online global commemoration for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims featuring testimonies on the theme of Remember, Support, Act. Among those telling their personal stories were Alliance members Donna Price, International Road Victims Partnership and Irish Road Victims Association, and Monica… READ MORE